As the first ray of sunshine jumped out of the horizon, the city of Nanjing, which had been silent for a night, began to bustle with the new day again. An early bird spread its wings and flew quickly over the city wall. After circling the city, it landed.
We were in the garden of a Western-style bungalow. The bungalow was a three-story white building. In a room at the corner of the third floor of the building, Jiujin, wrapped in a quilt, was lying on a mat on the floor, sound asleep.
Tang Cheng, who had gotten up and was wearing pajamas, was leaning against the window and looking into the distance.
Liu Yangyang met Liu Yangyang accidentally in Chunhua Town that day. Liu Yangyang had already brought Tang Cheng and Jiujin back to the Second Company's station, but the Second Company himself was living in the barracks of the teaching corps and had to take care of himself except for food.
In addition, all other supplies of the Second Company came from the teaching corps, so Liu Yangyang had no medicine to treat Tangcheng. After thinking about it, Liu Yangyang drove to the inn in Chunhua Town and found it.
He discarded the note in the corner of the room and sent Tang Cheng and Jiu Jin to the address on the note.
The daughter-in-law of the old man surnamed Wu knew that her family owed a favor to Tangcheng, so when Liu Yangyang came to see her off, the family didn't say anything. Moreover, the old man surnamed Wu's daughter-in-law was a Western medicine doctor herself, and the German consulate also
There was no shortage of medicine, so the drowsy Tang Cheng was left by Liu Yangyang at the home of the old man surnamed Wu, which is the Western-style house where Tang Cheng was staying at the moment. "Jiu Jin, it's time to get up." Tang Cheng
He planned to wake up Jiu Jin, but the latter was sleeping so hard that Tang Cheng couldn't wake him up no matter how he screamed, so he had to give up the idea.
There was a small brown suitcase and a coarse cloth baggage on the shelf in the corner of the room. Tang Cheng recognized that the small suitcase belonged to the old man named Wu. When the old man fled Shanghai, he used this suitcase to carry himself away.
Several rare volumes of ancient books that have been collected for many years. Tang Cheng moved his arms and felt a little stronger. He placed the suitcase and the baggage on the big bed where he slept. He opened the suitcase and found two of Tang Cheng's pistols inside.
And a few empty spare magazines, as well as some legal currency, Dayang and other odds and ends.
As usual, Tang Cheng sat cross-legged on the big bed and began to clean his gun on the spread out coarse cloth. In troubled times, Tang Cheng knew what could protect himself, especially when Robert and Xie Bo both said that a gun is the second weapon of a soldier.
Life. Skillfully disassembled the two pistols into parts, and wiped the parts one by one with a clean coarse cloth. Tang Cheng even wiped the spare magazines in the box. It is not so much that Tang Cheng escaped from Shanghai.
Nanjing, it is better to say that he came to Nanjing by killing Japanese soldiers all the way. Except for the four bullets left in the magazine of the m1911, the only three grenades left in Tangcheng were.
Slowly assembling the pistols, smelling the gun oil, Tang Cheng seemed to be back to the time when he faced the Japanese soldiers and fought to the death. After wiping his two pistols, seeing that Jiujin was still awake, Tang Cheng reached out and took the gun again.
The coarse cloth bundle was opened. The things in the bundle were the things Tang Cheng found from the corpses of Japanese soldiers who were disguised as civilians after they shot him on the roadside. The bayonets were thrown away by Tang Cheng at that time. What was in the bundle was
Two shell guns, two Japanese-style southern pistols and a few melon grenades. Of course, bullets are indispensable.
When Xie Bo was chatting with Tang Cheng, he talked about the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army. Although the southern pistol commonly equipped by the Japanese army looks very similar to the Luger pistol equipped by the German army, its performance is not as good as the imitation shell gun produced by the Shanxi Arsenal. Xu
Whether it was because he had been with Liu Yangyang for a long time, or because Tang Cheng had been dealing with people from all walks of life since he was a child, when these weapons were found on the corpses of Japanese soldiers, Tang Cheng's first reaction was to consider how to handle these pistols.
How much money can you get back on the black market?
After ejecting the magazine, he pulled the rear bolt to check whether there were still preloaded bullets in the chamber. Tang Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, played with the Nanfang pistol in his hand. All six magazines were filled with bullets. Tang Cheng withdrew from all the bullets.
He counted the bullets and found a total of 48 bullets. After playing with the bullets for a while, Tang Cheng gradually lost interest. He reached for the two shell guns and began to unload the magazines. The magazine filled with 10 bullets was noisier than the one in Tang Cheng.
A large section of the magazine was taken. Fortunately, the bullets they used were of the same caliber. Tang Cheng planned to buy the gun and keep the bullets for his own use.
"Xiao Tang, are you awake? Are you ready to have breakfast?" There was a rhythmic knocking on the door, followed by the energetic voice of the old man surnamed Wu. After arriving in Nanjing, the old man seemed to have recovered again.
In the leisurely life in Shanghai, every morning I would walk around the house, and then bring the steaming breakfast to wake up the family one by one to have breakfast. Tang Cheng agreed in a muffled voice, and then drank the rest of last night's drink.
Half a cup of herbal tea was poured on Jiujin's face, and Jiujin woke up from a deep sleep.
"Old man, my wound has almost healed, and I have bothered you for a while. Jiujin and I are going to leave Nanjing for Sichuan today. Let me tell you in advance, and we will pack our things soon." Swallowed.
Tang Cheng expressed his desire to leave at the dinner table. Jiu Jin, who was munching on the deep-fried dough sticks in his food, didn't care where he went with Tang Cheng, as long as Tang Cheng took care of the food and helped him kill Japanese soldiers to avenge himself.
"Your injuries haven't healed yet. Let's stay here for a while longer. What if you get sick again on the road?" Of course the old man didn't want Tang Cheng and Jiu Jin to leave. Besides, he sent Tang Cheng here that day*
The * officer said that he would come to pick up Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng just left. What if the * officer came to ask for someone? The old man was unwilling, and the old woman naturally did the same and tried her best to keep Tang Cheng and Jiu Jin Zaoduo.
After staying there for a while, the little girl chewing fried dough sticks was about to burst into tears.
Tang Cheng hasn't spoken yet, but the little girl's mother agrees with Tang Cheng's plan, "Xiao Tang, although the road is not easy to walk now, the Chongqing side should be safer than the north side. The Germans in our embassy have said that they want us to
These staff members will also move to the embassy with their families in the near future. People keep saying that Shanghai has been defeated and the Japanese will chase the Japanese retreating troops to attack Nanjing. Do you have any inside information?"
"Sister Mei, I'm just a child. Where did I get this inside information? When my adoptive father passed away in Shanghai, he told me to go to Chongqing to give something to his friend." Tang Cheng replied with a smile.
Questions from the little girl’s mother. Tang Cheng has been carrying a layer-wrapped oil paper bag close to his body. Inside is Tang Cheng’s U.S. passport. After waking up in the bungalow, Tang Cheng thought about taking his passport to the U.S. Embassy for help.
, but unfortunately he has been separated from Mike, the owner of the Rose Bar, and Tang Cheng, who only has two gold bars left in his body, doesn’t know what he can do in the United States.
After finally coaxing the little girl to stop crying, the old woman began to wipe away her tears again. Although she knew that Tangcheng had killed Japanese soldiers, and later also learned that those passers-by dressed up as Japanese soldiers, she could
Seeing Tang Cheng kill people with his own eyes was another story. Especially when Tang Cheng looked like he was only a teenager, it was simply unbelievable to the old woman that such an older child dared to kill several people with a gun.
I can believe that Tang Cheng's murderous look at that time really frightened the old woman.
But what happened later when the refugees snatched food and property made the old woman understand the dangers of people's hearts, and also the hardships that Tang Cheng had to go through to escort them all the way. When Chunhua Town changed clothes for Tang Cheng, the injuries on Tang Cheng's body were even more severe.
The old woman couldn't bear to face it. The old woman's two sons were not around. After Tang Cheng was sent by Liu Yangyang, out of guilt and love for Tang Cheng, the old woman took care of Tang Cheng like her own children.
The old man couldn't accept the sudden announcement that he was leaving.
"Okay, don't cry all the time. Xiao Tang and Jiu Jin are just going to Sichuan, not out of China. Sooner or later, there will still be a chance to meet. I don't believe that they beat away the Japanese. Xiao Tang won't
Come back and see us." The old man surnamed Wu was quite open-minded. After being in contact with Tang Cheng these days, he already knew that the young Tang Cheng was actually a man of his own opinions, so the old man surnamed Wu no longer blocked Tang Cheng's departure. However,
He still asked his daughter-in-law to prepare some trauma treatment medicine for Tangcheng and bring it with her.
"These two pistols are given to you as a souvenir. Although I found them from those Japanese soldiers, the recoil of these Japanese pistols is not very strong, so they are good for self-defense." Let Jiu Jin take Xiao Jin with him.
The girl went to the garden, and Tang Cheng took out two prepared southern pistols and four spare magazines and handed them to the old man named Wu, "As you just said, the war is in chaos now, so it is good to have something for self-defense by your side.
Just be prepared."
Tang Cheng wanted Jiujin to choose his own weapons. Jiujin didn't like the weird-looking southern pistols. He just took away the two shell guns that Tang Cheng was planning to discard, so Tang Cheng planned to leave these two pistols to Wu.
The old man and his family kept it for self-defense. "Thank you for taking care of you these days, let's go then. Take care." Tang Cheng, who was dressed in a suit, took Jiu Jin in a short shirt to say goodbye and left. The old man and his family were surnamed Wu.
People kept sending Tangcheng and the others out of the street before they stopped with tears in their eyes.
"You guys are trying to run away. Fortunately, I came in time." Tang Cheng and Jiujin had just walked not far away when they were stopped by Liu Yangyang and Nianzi who suddenly appeared. They ignored Tang Cheng's surprise and hugged him hard.
Standing on Tang Cheng's shoulder, Liu Yangyang smiled as proudly as a fox who had just stolen a chicken, "If I can pinch and calculate, I knew you would sneak away. Fortunately, you stopped me."
Jiujin already recognized Liu Yangyang as the officer who picked them up from Chunhua Town that day. Later, it was this officer who sent him and the unconscious Tang Cheng to the home of the old man named Wu. He saw that Tang Cheng was already being held by Liu Yangyang.
The leading soldiers took him away, and Jiujin had to follow behind with his baggage. "You are unjust, you know that the Second Company has come to Nanjing, why are you not willing to meet the brothers of the Second Company? Fortunately, Captain Xie kept saying
I miss you, kid." Liu Yangyang was like a talkative woman, talking all the way along the way, leaving Tang Cheng without even a chance to speak.